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Heidi Klum and Janelle Monáe wear elaborate E.T. costumes for their Halloween parties
November 01, 2024 - 1:54 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Heidi Klum and Janelle Monáe opted for out-of-this-world Halloween costumes this year — both choosing to dress as the stubby alien E.T. for their parties on opposite coasts.
A Palestinian-Israeli collective made one of 2024's most lauded docs. Will it be released in the US?
November 01, 2024 - 1:07 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Basel Adra, a Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli, spent five years making a movie that depicts daily life in Adra’s village under Israeli occupation. The resulting film, “No Other Land,” has been hailed as one of the year's most powerful documentaries, winning prizes at international film festivals.
Winnipeggers celebrate 50th anniversary of cult classic 'Phantom of the Paradise'
November 01, 2024 - 1:04 PM

WINNIPEG - When the American rock musical film "Phantom of the Paradise" was released in theatres in Winnipeg in 1974, Craig Wallace was one of the first to line up on opening day.
Local school staple 'Lost on a Mountain in Maine' from 1939 hits the big screen nationwide
November 01, 2024 - 12:25 PM

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story.
Movie Review: A mercurial Kieran Culkin shines in Jesse Eisenberg’s deft, accomplished ‘A Real Pain’
November 01, 2024 - 7:46 AM

It’s part comedy, part tragedy. It’s part road-trip saga, part odd couple-buddy flick, and part Holocaust film. What could possibly have gone wrong?
Willie Nelson on his new album, cannabis cookbook, Kris Kristofferson and what makes a good song
November 01, 2024 - 7:11 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Young musicians looking for longevity would be wise to follow the sensible word of Willie Nelson: Do what feels right, and if you're lucky enough to have a statue built in your honor in your city, remember that it is just something you've “got to go down and clean off the pigeon (expletive) every now and then."
This Toronto writer kept hearing her dead mom's voice. So she made a show about it
November 01, 2024 - 1:00 AM

TORONTO - After Wendy Litner’s mom died of cancer several years ago, a curious thing happened: her voice seemed to linger.
At 50, Hello Kitty is as 'kawaii' and lucrative as ever
November 01, 2024 - 12:59 AM

TOKYO (AP) — Hello Kitty turns 50 on Friday. Befitting a pop icon at midlife, the bubble-headed, bow-wearing character's fictional birthday has brought museum exhibits, a theme park spectacle and a national tour. And that's just in Japan, her literal birthplace but not the one listed in her official biography.
‘Dances with Wolves’ actor is again indicted on sexual abuse charges in Nevada
October 31, 2024 - 4:06 PM

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A grand jury in Nevada has again indicted Nathan Chasing Horse on charges that he sexually abused Indigenous women and girls, reviving a sweeping criminal case against the former “Dances with Wolves” actor.
In ‘Blitz,’ Steve McQueen shows wartime London through a child’s eyes
October 31, 2024 - 12:28 PM

It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.” As a Londoner, the German bombing raids on the city during World War II are never all that far from his mind. Reminders of it are everywhere.
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JONESIE: The lessons of free-range children long forgotten
OPINION When we were kids, we knew every inch of our neighbourhood. We ran around town till ten minutes before mom got home, which on weekends was often 2 a.m. Bad news for us when she got home early. We knew every vacant lot,

MATCHMAKING SERVICE: Young Agrarians hook up wannabe farmers with land in Okanagan
An organization that matches young, aspiring farmers to landholders has noticed fewer people are investing in orchards and vineyards in the Okanagan following the industry’s challenges this year. Young Agrarians is a national organiza

Growers and processors selected through a lottery for Kentucky's start-up medical cannabis program
Kentucky's start-up medical cannabis program should be positioned to ramp up quickly, but having products available for some patients at the outset will be a challenge, Gov. Andy Beshear says. Beshear's administration took a big ste

Kelowna trailer park residents face 'demoviction' from their affordable homes
Walking into Central Mobile Home Park in Kelowna you see well kept yards, towering evergreen trees, people walking their dogs and chatting with neighbours. The community of mostly seniors is slated to razed to make space for redevelopment but the

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Heidi Klum and Janelle Monáe wear elaborate E.T. costumes for their Halloween parties

A Palestinian-Israeli collective made one of 2024's most lauded docs. Will it be released in the US?

Winnipeggers celebrate 50th anniversary of cult classic 'Phantom of the Paradise'

Local school staple 'Lost on a Mountain in Maine' from 1939 hits the big screen nationwide

Movie Review: A mercurial Kieran Culkin shines in Jesse Eisenberg’s deft, accomplished ‘A Real Pain’

Willie Nelson on his new album, cannabis cookbook, Kris Kristofferson and what makes a good song

This Toronto writer kept hearing her dead mom's voice. So she made a show about it

At 50, Hello Kitty is as 'kawaii' and lucrative as ever

‘Dances with Wolves’ actor is again indicted on sexual abuse charges in Nevada

In ‘Blitz,’ Steve McQueen shows wartime London through a child’s eyes

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